Saving Grand Canyon
Saving Grand Canyon 2020 Winner of the Southwest Book Awards 2020 Spur Awards Finalist Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of AmericaThe Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the…
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Saving Grand Canyon
2020 Winner of the Southwest Book Awards 2020 Spur Awards Finalist Contemporary Nonfiction, Western Writers of AmericaThe Grand Canyon has been saved from dams three times in the last century. These efforts reached their climax during the 1960s when the federal government tried to build two massive hydroelectric dams in the Grand Canyon. Unthinkable as it may seem today, many people promoted damming the Colorado River in the canyon during the early twentieth century as the most feasible solution to the water and power needs of the Pacific Southwest.
Although not located within the Grand Canyon National Park or Monument, they would have flooded lengthy, unprotected reaches of the canyon and along thirteen miles of the park boundary.Saving Grand Canyon tells the remarkable true story of the attempts to build dams in one of America's most spectacular natural